PRA Analysis of American Hospitals Shows 20% Compliance With Price Transparency Rule

On January 1, 2021, a CMS rule requiring hospitals to post their real prices, including their discounted cash and secret negotiated rates, took effect. PatientRightsAdvocate.org surveyed a sampling of American hospitals in the spring of 2021 to determine the level of compliance with the rule. We found that just 86 of 431 hospitals surveyed (20%) are complying with it. Our findings are in line with numerous other recent studies, including one published in Health Affairs, that demonstrate widespread hospital non-compliance with the rule.

View the analysis HERE.

*Disclaimer: These compliance results are correct, based on our interpretation of the rule, at the time of analysis; hospitals may have updated their price disclosures since then to become compliant.